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King James II
Standard Name: James II, King
Used Form: Duke of York
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Joan Whitrow | |
| politics | Anne Halkett | Anne Murray (later AH
) became involved in monarchist plotting, with the spy and double agent Colonel Joseph Bampfield
. This led to her engineering the escape from England of the future James II
... |
| politics | Anne Halkett | Anne Murray (later AH
) crossed the threshold of national history when she smuggled the young Duke of York (the future James II
), disguised in women's clothes, out of St James's Palace on the... |
| politics | Elinor James | EJ
actively exerted an influence on the course of national affairs. She was a radical traditionalist, monarchist, and Jacobite who was critical of all the Stuart monarchs before Queen Anne
, and a high-flying Anglican... |
| politics | Elizabeth Delaval | A warrant went out for the arrest of Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (the former ED
) as a Jacobite: for helping to convey letters between the exiled James II
and his supporters in England, in an... |
| politics | Jane Barker | If, as Kathryn King
believes, Barker sent the evidence of her miraculous cure in 1730 to the mother superior who was formerly Lady Lucy, she did so as part of a concerted campaign to get... |
| Publishing | Jane Barker | Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library
and at Magdalen College
, Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar |
| Publishing | Barbara Blaugdone | |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Cellier | Lady Powis
, governess to the infant Prince of Wales
, brought the baby to the king
with Elizabeth Cellier
's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand. Lady Powis was author of a broadside Ballad... |
| Publishing | Anne Halkett | In this year there reached print at Edinburgh, together with three works by AH
, a printed version of her memoirs, radically recast by S. C. (who was probably Simon Couper
, one of... |
| Publishing | Jane Porter | The publisher, Longman
, had advertised this work as in the press in a flyer printed in April 1814 (bound into a copy of Modern Times by Eliza Parsons
, 1814). Within a couple of... |
| Reception | Aphra Behn | The Rover brought AB
to the notice of the Duke of York
. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 221 |
| Residence | John Locke | Locke spent the latter part of the 1670s in France, and then, for the last couple of years of Charles II
's reign and for the whole of that of James II
, lived... |
| Residence | Lady Lucy Herbert | When James II
fled from his kingdom at the end of 1688, LLH
's parents accompanied him into France to his court at St Germain. They sent for her at some time over the... |
| Residence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Ancestors bearing the same name as her father had first bought the Blarney Castle in County Cork estate in 1688 (after Donogh McCarthy, fourth Earl of Clancarthy
, had forfeited it for supporting James II |
Timeline
April 1698: Jeremy Collier published his Short View of...
Writing climate item
April 1698
Jeremy Collier
published his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, a book in heavy-handed pamphlet style with exaggerated typography.
By 1767: Of the thirty-seven county towns in England,...
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By 1767
Of the thirty-seven county towns in England, twelve had public Catholicmass-houses and at nine more a priest celebrated regular mass in his home.
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